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Storage Protect Family

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    IBM Spectrum IBM Spectrum Protect Replication to 3rd SP Server and/or Public Cloud Storage

    We can currently only replicate a node's data to only 1 IBM Spectrum Protect server. Various customers now have a requirement to replicate to a 3rd site or to the cloud.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 6 Not under consideration

    In SPP need the ability to backup local drives on clustered VMs that have non-unique UUIDs

    The customer has a need to use SPP to backup Windows VMs that are clustered. Currently when they look at the drives under each cluster the C:\ drive only appears on one of the servers in the cluster. The reason for this is that each C:\ drive has ...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Support DB2 HADR in Spectrum Protect Plus

    IBM Spectrum Protect Plus works perfectly with DB2 databases. Unfortunately for all our critical databases, which are replicated using DB2 HADR, backup and restore with Spectrum Protect Plus is currently not supported.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

    Support for vCloud Director

    We have several MSP partners who are installing vCloud director and who are using or plan to use SPP. VMware has published the following document regarding vCloud Backup:Backup Design for vCloud Tenant vAppshttps://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digit...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 5 Future consideration

    Reclaim database space

    I know that Storage Protect automatically does some database maintenance operations, such as reorganization. It would also be useful do do some equivalent of db2 "ALTER TABLESPACE LARGESPACE1 REDUCE MAX" (and/or the same for other tablespaces), to...
    7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Needs more information

    ternary chips can be modified and used as quantum chip

    Ternary.txt ternary chips can be modified and used as quantum chip. we do not need to develop the quantum - super conductor 150kw sub zero temperatures. it is enough that we develop a proper ternary quantum chip. ternary chip has three states -1 0...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Submitted

    Support replication of Retention Set information as well as the data

    At present, retention rules and retention sets that are defined on the source replication server are not replicated to the target server. Only the data in the retention sets is replicated. This is a problem, in that should the source server be los...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Remote monitoring functionality for the IBM Storage Protect instances to avoid storage capacity shortages and address performance issues

    IBM Storage Protect should provides a way to remotely monitor its insataces to storage capacity shortages and address performance issues. While I believe the best solution is to employ IBM Storage Insights to monitor capacity and performance stati...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

    Support for Microsoft Server 2025 - WinGet

    The IBM Storage Protect BA Client for Windows uses a complex installation process. spinstall.exe handles C++ package installation, language-specific MST files, and a file-by-file structure. This creates problems for mass deployment on Windows Serv...
    7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    Optimize migration algorythm of seq. storagepool to collocated storagepool

    Short:When migrating data from a file pool to a collocated tape pool a large number of mounts occur in the tape pool causing throughput to go down and maintenance can not complete in time. Setup:Data flowClient > (backup) > file pool > (m...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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